Loretta Swit and Harry Hamlin in “One November Yankee” at the NoHo Arts Center. Credit: Robert Arbogast.

SWEETTaking its name from the tail number of a crashed airplane, “One November Yankee” at the NoHo Arts Center is about a disaster rather than being a disaster, which is always the better side of the equation for a new play to be on.Philip Brandes – LA Times

BITTERSWEETOverall, though, One November Yankee (the title refers to the plane’s tail number) feels less like a unified whole and more like three different plays of varying quality.Sharon Perlmutter – Talkin’ Broadway

SWEETOne November Yankee, now onstage at NoHo Arts, may not be the greatest play ever written, but certainly manages to entertain as well as provoke.Don Grigware – Grigware Reviews

SWEETThe world premiere of “One November Yankee,” deftly written and smoothly directed by Joshua Ravetch, should merit a very nice run at the NoHo Arts Center with the marquee draw of its two actors, TV favorites Harry Hamlin and Loretta Swit.Gil Kaan – CultureSpotLA

SWEETSuffice it to say, Joshua Ravetch, the former Artistic Director of The Stella Adler Conservatory and Theater has written and directed a play that works well.Cynthia Citron – LA Examiner

BITTERSWEETIt has promise, but it feels like a short story trying to be a two-act play, and its needs fine-tuning. Melinda Schupmann – ArtsInLA

SWEETHARRY HAMLIN and LORETTA SWIT support this unusual and twisty story by delivering intelligence, humor, reality, and a good helping of highly charged electrical aplomb. Harvey Sid Fisher – Hollywood Today

SWEETWhoever thought to pair iconic stage, screen, and television stars Loretta Swit and Harry Hamlin in One November Yankee is a genius.Sue Facter – Tolucan Times

BITTERHamlin and Swit are fine, but not even these venerable TV veterans can breathe life into Ravetch’s forced, pedestrian dialogue and patently contrived situations.Bill Raden – LA Weekly

BITTERSWEETThough not as completely satisfying as one might have wished, One November Yankee makes for an evening of theater you’re likely to be talking quite a bit about once the lights have gone down on its startling, deliberately ambiguous final tableau.Steven Stanley – StageSceneLA

SWEETAs gimmicky as this might have come off, “One November Yankee” proves to be plenty humorous and rather deft. Even affecting.Evan Henerson – LA Examiner

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